Succepor to the Free Lance, Eitiblished 1887 VOL. 37—No. 74 154 May Receive Mid-Year Degrees AI Graduation One hundred and fifty-four graduate and undergraduate stu dents, approxiMately 50 less than last year, are candidates for bache lor and advanced degrees at mid year commencement exercises in Schwab Auditorium at 8 p. m. Tuesday,. January 28, Registrar William S. Hoffman announced yesterday. Included in the tentative list of ,graduates released . yesterday are 106 candidates for, degrees of bachelors of arts and science, 34 for master's degrees, 12 for doctor of- philosophy, and one for doctor of education. The principal address will be made by Charles Love Durham, head of the department of classics at Cornell University. The topic of his speech is still indefinite. Presi dent Ralph D. Hetzel will confer - the degrees and Prof. John H. Frizzell, chaplain of the College, will deliver the invocation. PROGRAM Academic Procession The Invocation, John H. Frizzell, Chaplain. -Soprano Solo: "None But the Lone ly Heart," Edith A..Burrage '4l. Address to the Graduating Class, Charles L. Durham of the de partment of classics, Cornell University. Conferring of degrees, President Ralph' 13: . Hetzel. Benediction Academic Recession RO.ROcelleitat:L fitte!bug-Arlists Terpsichorean experts will be .firially remunerated for their ef forts when they display their dancing ability at the Thespians' "Joe College Rat Race" on Tues day evening, February 4. The Campus Owls will supply the mu sic for the dance, which will be the opening event on the second semester social calendar. To give all dancers an equal chance at the three loving cups to be presented to competing couples, George L. Parrish '4l, president of Thespians, announced yester day that there would be competi tion in three classes, one for jit terbugs( one for "Smooth" dan gers, and one elimination contes where only luck will determine the winners. The Thespians have rounded up a trio of judges whose decision will decide the victorious couples. They are Miss Jessie Cameron, instructor in modern dance, Rus sell E. Clark, bursar of the Col lege, and J. Ewing "Sock" Ken nedy, director of the Thespians. lid To Britain' Is Topic Of Hillel Town Meeting "Aid to Britain—What Kind and How Much" is the topic of the next Town Meeting, to be held at the Hillel Foundation 7:30 p. m. tomorrow.- The speakers will be Mrs. W. A. • Broyles, a leader in the national peace movement and head of the local chapter of the WCTU; Ed i,.',ward -Steidle, dean of the School of Mineral Industries; and Rob `'-pert Stone; Assistant Professor. of . • Bacteriology. The . Town Meetings, -a. weekly feature. at, the Hillel .Foundation, will be discontinued after tomor- Y . 'row night until the second semes : - ',, ter. ' • . !dr IN Weather— O r / l ir illaitg (s t irit t o t a tt Fair and • Cold Nobel Winner Here Nobel prize winner in 1926, Dr. James Franck, professor of physical_ chemistry at the Uni versity of Chicago, will speak on the 'Fundamentals of Photosyn thesis" in Room 124 Liberal Arts at 8 p.m. next Friday. He is be ing sponsored by Sigma Xi, na tional honorary research society, and the School of Agriculture. Dr. Franck hai conducted re search with Emil Warburg, not ed photochemist, and Dr. Fritz Haber, inventor of the Haber ni trogen fixing process. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1926 for research on energy -inter change between electrons and molecules. - 38 Hunters Win tut Fine Appeal That 38 hunters would - be ex empted from the vacation cut fine charged against them for . class gatsr:lollowing.;Mginksgtving- va cation was revealed yesterday in an announcement by the Senate Committee on Absences. -- Only after considerable discus sion was the decision made to per mit exemptions to the hunters who cut classes after Thanksgiv ing. Six, 'however, will be fined $5 for cutting classes before vaca tion. Approximately 960 ' students were reported absent in violation', of the Christmas vacation cut reg ulation, compared with 628 cuts at Thanksgiving. Of this number, at least one-third had not left the campus and were. automatically exempted from the fine. I Nearly 700 student petitions for exemption from the cut fine were received by the committee. Two hundred students had post office jobs and between 100 and 150 had other positions. About two-thirds of. 'these petitions were accepted. Between 150 and 200 exemptions were also allowed for appeals of sickness. Bills will probably be charged and sent to the students not later than Monday or Tuesday in order that additional appeals may be made and the fines paid before second - •semester registration be- Igins. It will be necessary to have the accounts paid' before the stu dent can receive• his grade sheet and register for second semester classes. Trustees To Name Officers At Meeting, Next Week Election of officers• will feature the annual mid-winter: meeting of the Board of TrusteeS in Harris burg next Saturday. The Executive Council will meet the day preceding the: meeting of the full Board. Standing commit tees will also meet at this time. Other business to come before the trustees includes consideration of the mountain lodge and a pos sible revision of regulations 'gov erning student operation of auto mobiles on the campus. OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 18, 1941, STATE COLLEGE, PA Ritenour Named Draft Physician Dr. Joseph P. Ritenour, head of the College Health Service, has been appointed by Governor James as a special physician to examine students called in the draft, it was announced yesterday. The appointment was received early in the week, Dr. Ritenour said. Since that time three of the 1,554 students who registered in the Armory last October 16 have been examined at the Dispensary. Only undergraduate _and gradu ate students enrolled in the College will be examined at the Dispen sary, Dr. Ritenour said. He added that all others, including staff and faculty members, must be examin ed .by regular draft physicians. Under the new setup, he explain ed, when a student is required to take his physical examination Lo cal Draft Board No. 1 in State College is notified and the board in turn notifies the Dispensary, making an appointment for the actual examination: This- does away with the •necessity of the student returning to his home dis trict. Another announcement concern ing the draft came from 'Edward K. Hibshman, who was chairman of the College draft registration com mittee.. In response to inqUiries from students who said that they understood that they must register within five days after becoming 21 years of age, he said that it will not be necessary for them to reg ister until another registration day is proclaimed. Two days ago Governor James made virtually the same statement when he - reminded local draft boards that they have no juris diction over men who became 21 after October_l.6. _ English Poet Will Visit Campus Next Month The first in a series of second' semester speakers sponsored by the College, Wystan .H.. Auden, brilliant young English poet and playwright, will be poet in resid ence here the week of February 17-24, it was announced yesterday. Mr. Auden will give a public lecture at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Febru ary 18. He will also meet students at fraternity and dormitory lunch eons and will attend several classes. Dean Approves LA, Council Plan To Criticize Own Instructors Students Given Chance To Express Grievances Dean Charles W. Stoddart gave his approval yesterday to a plan proposed by the Liberal Arts Council, which will give students in the School of Liberal Arts an opportunity to voice criticism con cerning their instructors and their methods of teaching. • I In commending the council's proposal, Dean Stoddart express ed the belief that it will bridge the gap between the students and fac ulty, and if carried out efficiently, will improve the relationship be tween the two groujs. - Under the l new proposal, Lib eral Arts students who have ser ious grievances - to voice other than personal grudges and petty objec tions, should write a letter to the council in care of Student. Union and state their case. The, council will investigate the charges and, if it finds them sufficiently ser ious, will present the case to Dean Stoddart who will deal with the (matter as he sees fit. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Collegian Discontinues Issues Until February 3 With final examinations and mid-year recess laom i n g in two weeks, publication of The Daily collegian will be sus pended with this. issue and will be renewed on Monday, Febru ary 3. Examinations begin this Mon day and, end on Wednesday, 4n uary 29. After a mid-year recess of four and one-half days, regis tration for the second semester will be held on Monday and end on Wednesday, January 29. After a mid-year recess of four and one-half days, registration for the second semester will be held on Monday and Tuesday, February 3 and 4. 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 College Selects Defense Heads The names of administrative heads for the part-time engineer ing defense training courses, spon sored by the College Extension Service in 40 towns and cities of the state, were announced yester day. In Pittsburgh, where the fed eral-financed College Extension classes have already started with 1,350 men enrolled, the adminis trative head is Dr. Herbert L. Spencer, president of the Penn sylvania College for Women, on whose campus most of the Pitts burgh classes are held. At Altoona, Dußois, Hazleton, and Pottsville, where the College operates full-time undergraduate centers, the administrative heads of these. centers will. also .admibis ter the defense courses. All defense classes meet three nights a week and the instructors and administrative heads - serve on I a part-time basis. Under the en tire College program, an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 men, mainly em ployees of defense industries, will be trained. Registration, complet ed in 20 of the cities last week, showed a total of 5,572 trainees. Medical Lecture Tuesday The medical lecture on "Pre natal Care'? to be given by Dr. Howard Power in Rooin 121 Lib eral Arts will be at 8 p.m. Tues day instead of Monday as reported to The Daily Collegian yesterday. iii . l! : ::.:ll . i'qigili;:;iiiii.il ' : !!ls;ipii:, . . .. DEAN CHARLES W. STODDART To vouch for the authenticity of the complaint, all letters must be signed, but the names will not be used during the investigation, Richard C. Peters '4l, president of the council, announced yesterday. PRICE THREE CENTS New Courses, Free 4 O'Clocks Next Semester With the first semester all over but the exams, announcements of second semester changes were made yesterday by Ray V. Wat kins, college scheduling officer. 1. Except for a few four-hour labs, no Wednesday or Friday 4 o'clock classes are scheduled, com plying with the request of All- College Cabinet. 2. ROTC infantry parades will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday and the ROTC engineers will march at 4 p.m. Tuesdays. 3. Timetables will be available for ten cents at the Registrar's Of fice beginning Monday. 4. Catalogues for 1941-42 are al ready available at the Registrar's Office. 5. No classes will be held in out-of-the-way places such as the Sheep Barns or the Water Tower as has been the case in the past. 6. New courses in history, eco nomics, geography and engineering to be offered next semester have been shaped largely by interna tional and domestic developments arising from the current war. The new courses are: Agricultural Economics 421, land economics. CE 445, airplane structures (pos sibly offered), Economics 70, Canadian eco- nomics EE 513, application of the pri mary standards and measure ments, equipment, and other spe cial problems in radio frequency measurements (probably offered). Geography ' 410. geography of Middld AtheriCa. Geography 411, geography of ,South America. History 22, Latin American his tory to 1820. History 444, Eastern Europe in modern times. History 461, social and cultural history of Latin America. Physical Education, a special non-credit evening course in first aid. Student Book Exchange Will Open Next Friday For the fourth consecutive year, the non-profit Student Book Ex change will operate in the Carne gie Library reference room from January 24 to 31 and February 3 to 7, between 9 a. m. and 5:30 p. m. daily, Co-chairmen Gerald F. Doherty '42 and William P. Mc- Fadden '43 announced yesterday. The co-chairmen stated that students' names and addresses must be in their books, that books will be sold in the order in which they are received and that checks not exceeding $lO must be made out to the Student Book Exchange. 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1 1 3 Late News - Bulletins 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111011111111111111111111111110 NEW YORK—Henry Armstrong failed in his comeback bid for the welterweight championship last night when Fritz Zivic stopped him in a technical knockout in 52 sec onds of the 12th round. GLASGOW—Winston Churchill, yesterday assured the United (States that "England will not re quire large armies from overseas rn 1941." What England will need, he said, is continued supplies of equipment and aircraft. Harry Hopkins, present at the speech, re vealed that Churchill predicted a "crisis" in 60 or 90 days.
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